Holder for articles



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Patented Jan. 5, 1937 2,066,768 noLDEP. FOR ARTICLES Lawrence N. Clark, Newton, Mass.

Application May 5, 1934, Serial No. 724,089

6 Claims.

This invention relates to a holder for tools and the like and has for its object to provide a holding device of novel construction in which certain types of tools may be carried by the user preferably suspended from a belt worn by the user in order that he may have ready access to said tool.

Another object of theinvention is to provide a holding device having a means embodied therein for frictionally gripping the tool or article carried thereby in order that said article may be firmly positioned and held in the device.

Another object of the invention is to provide a means for varying the pressure of the frictional gripping member upon the tool.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a holding device having a gripping member for a tool embodied therein which may also be utilized as a means for frictionally gripping the belt from which the device is suspended to the end that movement of the device upon the belt may be retarded.

The invention consists in a holding device for tools and the like as set forth in the following specification and particularly as pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawing:-

Fig. 1 represents a plan view of the holder.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder.

Fig. 3 is a central vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. l and including a portion of the handle of a tool mounted in the device.

Fig. 4 is a detail horizontal section taken on the line I4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a modified embodiment of the invention.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

In the drawing, referring particularly to Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, 6 represents a sleeve provided with a passage I extending vertically therethrough. Formed integral with the sleeve 6 and projecting laterally therefrom is an offset portion 8 which terminates in a belt-retaining portion 9 having a passage Ill extending horizontally therethrough. This passage ID is provided for the purpose of receiving a belt B which may be worn by the user of this device.

A spring I I is provided upon the upper face of the offset portion 8, being secured thereto by means of a screw I2 provided with a nut I3 which is located within a recess I4 provided in the under face of the offset portion 8. The spring I I extends from the exterior of the device at the offset portion downwardly into the passage I and terminates at its lower extremity in a V-shaped portion I5, the two sides of which are adapted to frictionally engage the periphery of a tool A which is located in the passage I of the sleeve 6. Normally, the position of the spring I I and particularly the lower V-shaped portion I5 thereof is as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, but when the tool A is inserted in the passage I the V-shaped portion I5 of the spring will be sprung rearwardly and said V-shapd portion will act to not only firmly hold the tool in the sleeve 6 but also to position said tool in the passage 7.

The spring lI prior to being attached to the device by means of the tool I2 is straight, but it will be noted that the rear surface of this spring engages a corner portion I6 formed upon the sleeve 6 at the top edge thereof adjacent to the offset portion 8, and it will be noted that the tension of this spring II and consequently the pressure thereof against the tool may be varied by turning the screw I2 in the proper direction, at which time the spring will be caused to bend slightly at the corner I6. said corner functioning as a fulcrum.

When a tool is inserted in the device of this invention, that portion thereof which is intended shall be held within the sleeve 6 is inserted in the passage 1 of said sleeve and pushed downwardly therein until it is firmly engaged and positioned by the V-shaped portion I5 of the spring II, and it will be noted that the screw I2 which is utilized to secure the spring II to the device is so positioned that it will not interfere with the tool when the latter is being inserted in the sleeve 6.

It is evident that the device need not necessarily be suspended from a belt, but may be secured to any suitable form of support by any suitable securing means.

In Fig. 5 I have illustrated a modified embodiment of my invention in which a spring I! is secured by means of a screw I2 to the offset portion 8 of a holder, but in this form of the invention the spring is provided with an upwardly extending belt-engaging portion I8 which projects through a slot I9 provided in the beltretaining portion 9 of the device and enters the passage I formedtherein in a manner to frictionally engaged the surface of a belt which may be used as a support for the device and which passes through the passage In. In this form of the invention the screw I2 may be utilized as a means for varying the pressure of the spring against the tool mounted within the passage 915 the sleeve 6 and also as a means for varying the pressure of the portion 18 of the spring upon the surface of the belt.

I claim:

1. A holder of the character described comprising, in combination, a sleeve, a belt-retaining portion integral therewith, a resilient member adapted to engage an article mounted within said sleeve, and means to simultaneously secure said resilient member to said sleeve and also vary the pressure of said resilient member upon said article.

2. A holder of the character described comprising, in combination, a sleeve, a belt-retaining portion integral therewith, and a resilient member adapted to engage an article mounted within said sleeve and also engage a belt within said retaining portion.

3. A holder of the character described comprising, in combination, a sleeve, a belt-retaining portion integral therewith, a resilient member adapted to engage an article mounted within said sleeve and also engage a belt within said retaining portion, and means to vary the pressure of said resilient member upon said article and upon said belt.

4. A holder of the character described comprising, in combination, a sleeve, a belt-retaining portion integral therewith, a spring within said sleeve provided with a V-shaped portion adapted to engage and position an article located within the sleeve, said spring also having a portion embodied therein adapted to engage a belt within said retaining portion, and means to vary the pressure of said spring upon said article and upon said belt.

5. A holder of the character described comprising, in combination, a sleeve, 2. belt-retaining portion integral therewith and offset laterally therefrom, a spring adapted to engage an article mounted within said sleeve and also engage a belt within said retaining portion, and means to simultaneously secure said spring to said offset portion and also vary the pressure of said spring upon said article and upon said belt.

6. A holder for articles comprising, in combination, a body member provided with a passage therein adapted to receive an article and also having an inclined surface embodied therein intersecting a side of said passage and forming a corner at said intersection, a spring mounted upon said inclined surface and projecting therefrom into said passage and adapted to yieldingly engage an article therein, and a screw for fastening said spring to said inclined surface, said corner constituting a fulcrum for said spring, whereby the latter may be adjusted by said screw to vary its pressure upon the article.

LAWRENCE N. CLARK. 

